[Chorus]
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel

[Verse 2]
To whom much is given
Much is required
Luxurious liver
You never inquire
It ain't right, you see
Who is your family?
If I don't have tools to fight
Calling this a quarrel isn't right
Quoting this a quarrel
So immorally implies
We're equal opponents
And we both antagonize

[Chorus]
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel

[Chorus]
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel
Don't call it a Lovers' Quarrel

About “Quarrel”

In a podcast from Song Exploder about “Quarrel”, Sumney tells the story about him going on a TED Talk cruise with a lot of very rich people and environmental scientists. They were very passionate about the environment, but were simultaneously dismissive of racial discrimination existing. Sumney wrote most the lyrics in his cabin on the cruise thinking about the distance between people from different social backgrounds. The song is about power, and it’s about the dynamic between two people from different social groups in a relationship. Sumney states “that you can’t call a disagreement between two people simply "a lovers' quarrel”, because that would imply that they’re equals, and we’re not"